BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in Reading

F5 Networks BIG-IP
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.10% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £520 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

BIG-IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 125 120 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.51% 18.84% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 49 118
10th Percentile £257 £250 £205
25th Percentile £406 £330 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £480 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £612 £613 £591
90th Percentile £688 £650 £609
Berkshire median daily rate £439 £484 £425
% change year-on-year -9.30% +13.82% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile - - £75.51
25th Percentile £16.01 - £87.46
Median hourly rate £36.67 - £87.53
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.57%
75th Percentile £63.50 - -
90th Percentile £81.80 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £83.77
% change year-on-year +71.33% -70.56% +168.05%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BIG-IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in Reading

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing BIG-IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) BGP
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 11 (100.00%) LAN
1 11 (100.00%) OSPF
1 11 (100.00%) WAN
2 10 (90.91%) DHCP
2 10 (90.91%) DNS
2 10 (90.91%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 10 (90.91%) Junos
2 10 (90.91%) VXLAN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
3 1 (9.09%) WLAN
General
1 1 (9.09%) Billing
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
1 5 (45.45%) Senior Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall Specialist
2 4 (36.36%) Network Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Clustering
1 10 (90.91%) Data Centre
1 10 (90.91%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) iSeries
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) High Availability
1 10 (90.91%) Identity Access Management
1 10 (90.91%) Load Balancing
1 10 (90.91%) Observability
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) ITSM
3 5 (45.45%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Availability Management
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Change Control
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Project Governance
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (45.45%) JNCIA
3 5 (45.45%) JNCIP
3 5 (45.45%) JNCIS
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
1 11 (100.00%) F5
2 10 (90.91%) Juniper
2 10 (90.91%) SolarWinds
2 10 (90.91%) Splunk
3 9 (81.82%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
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